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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) are welcoming $800,000 in American Rescue Plan grant funding to support training and development of Tribal entrepreneurs at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Rainforest Innovations. “UNM Rainforest...

WASHINTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and U.S. Representatives Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and Tom Cole (R-Okla.) introduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Tribal Public Health Security and Preparedness Act, legislation that would ensure Tribal nations have equal access to funding...

WASHINGTON – Last week, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) addressed the attendees of the 87th Annual North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference to highlight their bipartisan legislation, the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. For more than eight decades, the Wildlife Management Institute...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is inviting Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel to visit New Mexico for a tour of the most pressing and unique broadband challenges, especially in Pueblos and rural and unincorporated communities. In a letter to FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel, Senator Heinrich...

WASHINGTON (February 23, 2022) – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) and Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) are welcoming U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland’s announcement that, following feedback received from Tribal consultation, the...

WASHINGTON (Feb. 8, 2022) – Today during a full Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on pending nominations, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), requested an update on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) investigation into the recent vandalism attack on sacred petroglyphs at La Cieneguilla near Santa Fe. WATCH:...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined members of the National Indian Education Association in a virtual discussion on how the Bureau of Indian Education and Tribally-controlled schools have been impacted by the pandemic. In the recently-passed American Rescue Plan, Senator Heinrich helped secure $1.1 billion for Native...

WASHINGTON ­– U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), and New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham applauded the final passage of the American Rescue Plan to provide critical relief for New Mexico families, workers...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich’s (D-N.M.) request was granted by the Biden administration to retroactively reimburse state, local, Tribal, and territorial governments for 100% rather than 75% of eligible emergency costs related to fighting COVID-19. President Joe Biden directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on a video showing a park ranger tasing a Native American man in Petroglyph National Monument: "We are shocked by the video of a National Park Service ranger tasing Darrell House at Petroglyph National Monument on...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement on reports that President-Elect Joe Biden will nominate U.S. Congresswoman Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior: “I am pleased that President-Elect...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján, Deb Haaland, and Xochitl Torres Small are urging Congressional Leadership to recognize the severe need to extend coverage of Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) payments allocated under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES)...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján, Deb Haaland, and Xochitl Torres Small are urging the Trump administration to take immediate action on Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez’s recent request for a major disaster declaration. Tribal communities have been especially...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is lauding the momentum of the Bridging the Tribal Digital Divide Act after it passed out of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs yesterday. The legislation would expedite the deployment of affordable broadband service on tribal lands by coordinating and improving the effectiveness of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) has sent a letter to Indian Health Service Director Rear Admiral Michael D. Weahkee condemning a recent decision to decrease essential services at the Acoma-Canoncito-Laguna (ACL) Hospital. The Pueblo of Acoma has seen a spike in COVID-19 cases. Over a matter of weeks, cases on the Pueblo...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) announced 15 Tribes and Pueblos across New Mexico will receive spectrum licenses through the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Rural...

WASHINGTON – In a speech delivered on the Senate Floor today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) denounced Senate Republicans' ongoing rush to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court ahead of the presidential election, instead of focusing on passing meaningful COVID-19 relief...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) has introduced the Internet Development for Tribes Act, legislation that removes regulatory barriers for tribes to access the internet and invests in infrastructure necessary to access high-speed broadband in rural communities. Senator Heinrich’s Internet Development for Tribes...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich wants answers after two soldiers from the Navajo Nation died while stationed at Fort Hood in Texas. 

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), both members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, have sent a letter to U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy requesting a thorough investigation into the high number of deaths this year at the Fort Hood Army Base in Texas. The letter comes in the wake of the...